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  • English Word Roorbach Definition A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.
  • English Word Roorback Definition Alt. of Roorbach
  • English Word Roosa oil Definition The East Indian name for grass oil. See under Grass.
  • English Word Roost Definition Roast.
  • English Word Roost Definition See Roust, v. t.
  • English Word Roost Definition The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
  • English Word Roost Definition A collection of fowls roosting together.
  • English Word Roost Definition To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
  • English Word Roost Definition Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
  • English Word Roostcock Definition The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
  • English Word Roosted Definition of Roost
  • English Word Rooster Definition The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
  • English Word Roosting Definition of Roost
  • English Word Root Definition To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
  • English Word Root Definition Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
  • English Word Root Definition To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
  • English Word Root Definition The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
  • English Word Root Definition The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
  • English Word Root Definition An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
  • English Word Root Definition That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
  • English Word Root Definition An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
  • English Word Root Definition A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
  • English Word Root Definition The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
  • English Word Root Definition That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
  • English Word Root Definition The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
  • English Word Root Definition The lowest place, position, or part.
  • English Word Root Definition The time which to reckon in making calculations.
  • English Word Root Definition To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
  • English Word Root Definition To be firmly fixed; to be established.
  • English Word Root Definition To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.